Cases - ACLU of North Carolina

Court Case

Jul 02, 2020

Court Case

Jul 02, 2020

Free Speech|
+1 Issue

NAACP Alamance v. Peterman (Protest Rights)

The ACLU together with a coalition of civil rights groups filed an emergency lawsuit against the city of Graham, North Carolina, seeking to immediately block a city ordinance that the government used to suppress protests against racism, police brutality, and white supremacy.

Court Case

Jan 10, 2019

Court Case

Jan 10, 2019

LGBTQIA+ Equality

M.E. v. T.J. (Domestic Violence Protections for LGBTQ People)

Prior to our action on this case, North Carolina was the only state in the nation whose laws that provide protections to survivors of domestic violence do not apply equally to those in same-sex relationships. We challenged this policy in court on behalf of a survivor of domestic violence.

Court Case

Jun 15, 2018

Court Case

Jun 15, 2018

Criminal Law Reform

Buffkin v. Hooks: Hepatitis C Treatment for People Incarcerated

The ACLU of North Carolina and North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services are representing three people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons who suffer from Hepatitis C in a federal class-action lawsuit against state officials.

Court Case

Jan 11, 2017

Lonnie Billard, ACLU, Charlotte Catholic, teacher, gay, fired

Court Case

Jan 11, 2017

LGBTQIA+ Equality

LGBTQ Employment Protections

The ACLU is representing a former Teacher of the Year who was fired from his school in violation of federal law after announcing on Facebook that he was marrying his longtime same-sex partner.

Court Case

Nov 30, 2016

Court Case

Nov 30, 2016

Reproductive Freedom|
+1 Issue

Bryant v. Woodall

The ACLU and other reproductive rights groups successfully challenged North Carolina’s unconstitutional law that prevented doctors from providing abortion care to a woman after the twentieth week of pregnancy.

Court Case

Mar 28, 2016

Joaquin Carcano HB2 LGBT LGBTQ trans transgender North Carolina

Court Case

Mar 28, 2016

LGBTQIA+ Equality

LGBTQ Discrimination

The ACLU, ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal challenged North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2, and its discriminatory replacement, House Bill 142, on behalf of LGBT North Carolinians and members of the ACLU of North Carolina.

Court Case

Mar 01, 2016

charter day school, aclu, pants, skirts, discrimination, girls, women

Court Case

Mar 01, 2016

Student Rights|
+1 Issue

Peltier v. Charter Day School (Discriminatory School Dress Codes)

The ACLU successfully represented three Brunswick County students in a legal challenge against a section of a K-8 public charter school’s dress code that requires female students to wear skirts to school and prohibits them from wearing pants or shorts.

Court Case

Apr 09, 2014

Lennie, Pearl, marriage equality, North Carolina

Court Case

Apr 09, 2014

LGBTQIA+ Equality

Freedom to Marry

The ACLU and ACLU of North Carolina won a 2014 lawsuit on behalf of three married, same-sex couples seeking state recognition of their marriages.

Court Case

Mar 13, 2013

Court Case

Mar 13, 2013

Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty

The ACLU successfully represented three Rowan County residents in a challenge to their county commissioners’ practice of opening meetings by coercing the public to join them in prayers that overwhelmingly advance beliefs specific to one religion.

Court Cases

All Cases

NAACP Alamance v. Peterman (Protest Rights)

M.E. v. T.J. (Domestic Violence Protections for LGBTQ People)